Google Add URL

2009-06-19T22:16:00.000-07:00

Getting your website indexed by Google is very important for popularity and success of your website or blog. A website that is not indexed by Major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Live is as good as your personal diary, you will be the first and last person who will keep visiting it again and again.

One of the ways to get your website or blog pages indexed faster is to submit / add your URL to Google.

It is preferable that you submit top-level page of your website or blog (e.g.: http://www.GoogleAddURL.blogspot.com). However, you can submit individual pages (e.g.:- http://googleaddurl.blogspot.com/2009/05/adwords-google-adwords.html) as well, incase Google has not yet indexed them. Google Crawler, Google Bot will be able will scan your website and will index pages that it find appropriate. Google updates its index regularly and if your website is already indexed by Google then its not necessary to submit again.

Submit your website URL to Google for FREE

Has google indexed my site

2009-05-29T10:53:00.000-07:00

You can find out if Google has already indexed your website or blog by doing the following.

1) Open Browser window
2) Type www.google.com in address bar
3) Enter Site:www.googol-links.com (<-- you need to enter your website or blog URL)
4) Click "Search" button
5) If you see results related to your website or blog that means pages of your site are indexed by Google. Click here to see example. or click on the below image

Who links to my website

2009-05-29T10:10:00.000-07:00

Google PageRank is a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set.

There are several factors that Google Search Engine uses to determine page rank of web pages of your website or blog. One of the factors is number of external website or blog pages that links to your website or blog. So if google finds more number or web pages on WWW (world wide web) that links to your website then it will assign higher page ranking for your web site and specific web pages.

So, one of the ways to get higher ranking is to submit your website link in web directories. Web directory submissions will help in 2 ways, firstly your website or blog link will attract additional visitors i.e., directory visitors and secondly Google Search engine will find an external link to your website or blog link in Quality directory.

e.g.:- www.Googol-Links.com is one such quality link bid directory, where you can submit your website or blog link.

Google Webmaster tools

2009-05-28T22:00:00.000-07:00

Google webmaster tools is FREE that helps website or blog owners to fine-tune your website to become more Google-friendly. Google webmaster tools show you Google's view of your site, help you diagnose problems, and let you provide info with Google to help improve your site's visibility in Google Search results.

Google webmaster tools will help you on the following.
1) Crawl Info: Provides when Googlebot visited your website or blog last time and the URL it had trouble crawling due to access issues or page is no longer available. You can also create Robots.txt there by preventing the pages, files or images that you don’t want Google to index.

2) Indexing Stats: Provides details on the pages that are indexed, there by providing you an opportunity to fine tune pages in order to get them indexed.

3) Query Results: Provides results on "Top Queries" that were used by your website visitors on Google.com search to reach your website or a particular web page. This is one the very important utility that allows you to know, how to fine-tune your website's or blog's Meta tags, Keywords, page content.

4) Site Map: You as website or blog owner can communicate to Google search engine about the pages that change often and that are important for your website or blog visitors to see.

5) Crawl Rate: You can also communicate to Google Search Engine on your preferred Crawl rate i.e. to slow down or speed up the crawl of your site.

Create your FREE Google webmaster tools account today.

Ad words Google Adwords

2009-05-28T21:00:00.000-07:00

Beyond doubt, Google is the best online advertising company. Google Adwords is an online advertising program where website owner can create their own ads based on keywords. Your website or blog URL will be displayed to people searching on Google and on other websites of your preference. Google Adwords is one of the best online marketing option chosen by millions of corporate and individuals.

You can choose from a variety of ad formats, including text, image, audio, and video ads, and easily track your ad performance using the reports available in your account.

You can also choose to pay only for clicks on your ads (with cost-per-click bidding) or only for impressions your ads receive (with cost-per-thousand-impressions bidding).

Good thing about Google Adsense program is, Minimum cost per click (CPC) can be set to as low as $0.01 per click. So you can get a Quality visits from Google search or from your competitor websites or blogs just only for $0.01 that’s cool isn't it. You can also try Google Adwords program for minimum budget as low as $10.00 This program is really really worth trying!!!

Success of Google Adwords program lies on the keywords advertisers have chosen for advertising. Before advertising in Google Adwords, one needs to select Keywords related to their Business or website that you are going to choose for advertising. Google Adwords Keyword Tool helps you to generate Key word ideas and select keywords that are best suited for attracting more visitors for your website or blog. Try Google Adwords Keyword Tool

Yahoo site explorer

2009-05-28T18:00:00.000-07:00

Yahoo Site Explorer is a FREE website from Yahoo.com. This site is similar to Google Webmaster site that allows website and blog owners to fine-tune Search engine indexing and gain higher ranking in Yahoo search engine. Yahoo site explorer enables you to the following,

- Submit your website or blog URL to Yahoo search engine if not already indexed by Yahoo search engine.
- Allows to establish ownership of the site by adding Meta tag on the main page of your website or blog.
- Find out which external websites are providing reference to your website.
- View the most popular pages from any site.
- Setup Site map which will help yahoo search engine to index your WebPages better.
- Find out which of your sub domains are indexed by Yahoo search engine.
- You can also Request some of the URL not to be indexed, if you feel they contain irrelevant or sensitive information.

You will required a Yahoo email account in order to sign in to Yahoo Site Explorer.

Below is a sample snapshot of Yahoo Site Explorer.